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The common neural bases between sexual desire and love: a multilevel kernel density fMRI analysis

Published inThe journal of sexual medicine, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 1048-1054
Publication date2012
Abstract

One of the most difficult dilemmas in relationship science and couple therapy concerns the interaction between sexual desire and love. As two mental states of intense longing for union with others, sexual desire and love are, in fact, often difficult to disentangle from one another.

Keywords
  • Brain/physiology
  • Brain Mapping
  • Dominance, Cerebral/physiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Libido/physiology
  • Love
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Nerve Net/physiology
  • Retrospective Studies
Citation (ISO format)
CACIOPPO, Stéphanie et al. The common neural bases between sexual desire and love: a multilevel kernel density fMRI analysis. In: The journal of sexual medicine, 2012, vol. 9, n° 4, p. 1048–1054. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02651.x
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